'This House,' Helen Mirren in 'The Audience' Next Up For National Theatre Live by Frank Rizzo

To Be Broadcast To Connecticut Screens

Open Auditions For Equity Actors At Hartford Stage by Frank Rizzo

'Tartuffe' Launches 2013 Yale Summer Cabaret Season by Frank Rizzo

'Elf,' 'Jersey Boys' To Waterbury's Palace Theater by Frank Rizzo

'Riding The Turnpike:' Sex Isn't Pretty -- Or Interesting by Frank Rizzo

HartBeat Ensemble Premieres New Work At New Home BaseThe show: "Riding the Turnpike" at Hartford's HartBeat Ensemble

Review: 'Hairspray:" Bouncy, Silly, Fun -- With a Touch of Twisted. by Frank Rizzo

The show: " "Hairspray" by Connecticut Repertory Theatre at the Harriet Jorgensen Theatre at UConn in Storrs.

Tony Awards Nominations Tuesday: The Guessing Game by Frank Rizzo

Pat Sajak Returns For 'The Drowsy Chaperone' Musical At UConn's Nutmeg Series by Frank Rizzo

Also "NCIS: Los Angeles"'s Barrett Foa in 'The Music Man;' Steve Hayes in 'A Funny Thing'"Wheel of Fortune" 's host Pat Sajak retuyrns to Connecticut Repertory Theatre's Nutmeg Summer Se…

Che Ayende, Joe Paulik In 'Twelfth Night' Cast At Hartford Stage by Frank Rizzo

Che Ayende (Hartford Stage's "The Whipping Man") and Joe Pauiik (Hartford Stage's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer") join the previously announced Kate McCluggage in William Shakespeare's…

11 Connecticut Arts Groups Receive $420,000 In NEA Grants by Frank Rizzo

Connecticut arts groups will receive 11 grants totaling $440,000 from the  National Endowment for the Arts  ( NEA ) $26.3 million in grants to nonprofit national, regional, state, and …

"Spamalot" Opens TriArts Theater in Sharon by Frank Rizzo

The musical "Spamalot" opens the TriArts Sharon Playhouse running June 26 to July 7 in Sharon, CT. Jennifer Werner directs and choreographs with music direction by Eric Kang.

HartBeat's 'Riding the Turnpike' Explores Sex Industry In Connecticut by Frank Rizzo

Resilient Company Celebrates 12th Anniversary With A New Focus, Home And A Provocative PremiereLast June, Hartford's HartBeat Ensemble faced a devastating loss. Gregory R. Tate, one of the t…

Cheshire's Peter Lockyer Stars In "Les Miserables" at New Haven's Shubert by Frank Rizzo

Cheshire's  Peter Lockyer  stars as Jean Valjean in the touring production of " Les Miserables"  pokaying this weekend at the  Shubert Theater  in New Haven.

Cast Named For "The Fabulous Lipitones" Musical Workshop by Frank Rizzo

At Goodspeed's Norma Terris Theatre In ChestertDanny Rutigliano  (Broadway's "The Lion King," the national tour of "How to Succeed in Business...") will be featured in the cast of the new m…

David Auburn, Samuel D. Hunter Part of National Playwrights Conference by Frank Rizzo

8 Plays Named To Be Developed At O'Neill Theater CenterTwo leading playwrights will be among the 8 eight whose new works will be developed at the National Playwrights Conference in July at…

Kevin Spacey Gives Wild Salute To Christopher Plummer At O'Neill Theater Center Gala by Frank Rizzo

Kevin Spacey Presents Monte Cristo Award Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey gave a wild, rollicking and heartfelt tribute to Christopher Plummer at Monday night's gala for Waterford's Eug…

Ayad Akhtar's "Disgraced" Wins Pulitzer Prize by Frank Rizzo

Review of Hartford Stage's "Abundance:" Go West, Young Woman! (But Pack a Lunch) by Frank Rizzo

The show: "Abundance" by Beth Henley at Hartford Stage

Cheshire's Jonny Orsini Makes Broadway Debut In 'The Nance' by Frank Rizzo

Stars As Lover To Nathan Lane's Character Jonny Orsini sits in his sparse dressing room on the second floor of the Lyceum Theatre prior to a matinee of Douglas Carter Beane's new play, "The …

TheaterWorks' 'Spaghetti' Gets Another Helping At George Street Playhouse by Frank Rizzo

"Spaghetti" is having a second helping.

Dick Meyers' Puppetry Project Set for UConn by Frank Rizzo

Family Shows Unseen For 30 Years"Cinderella" and" Beauty and the Beast" will make up "The Dick Meyers Project," featuring UConn puppet Arts graduate student Seth Shaffer at the Studi…

Tina Fabrique Switches from Ella To Motormouth by Frank Rizzo

Co-Stars in CRT's "Hairspray" at UConnTina Fabrique, best known for her starring role in “Ella” on three Connecticut stages, will join Kevin Meaney i n the cast of the Connect…

David Linday-Abaire, Theresa Rebeck At Playwrights Panel At Mark Twain House by Frank Rizzo

Also "In the Continuum"'s Nikkole SalterA playwrights panel featuring Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lindsay Abaire (“Rabbit Hole”) and Pulitzer finalist Theresa Rebeck will be …

Performance Artist John Kelly Joins Cast For "In A Year With 13 Moons" At Yale Rep by Frank Rizzo

Premiere Adaptation Based On Fassbinder Film

Jen Silverman's "Still" Selected For Yale Play Award by Frank Rizzo

Marsha Norma Choose PlayJen Silverman is the winner of the 2013 Yale Drama Series for her play   "Still," chosen by Pulitzer Prize winner Marsha Norman.

Cast Set For Westport Playhouse's "Dining Room" by Frank Rizzo

Old Gurney Hand, Mark Lamo,s DirectsHeidi Armbruster (Broadway’s “Time Stands Still”), Chris Henry Coffey (Playhouse’s “Lips Together, Teeth Apart"), Keira …

LeRoy McClain Joins Alice Ripley In Long Wharf's "Clybourne Park" by Frank Rizzo

Dan Jenkins Cast, TooLeRoy McClain (Broadway’s “Cymbeline," "The History Boys") will join Tony Award-winner Alice Ripley (Broadway's "Next to Normal")  in the cast of Bruce …

New Musical "LMNOP" Gets Workshop At Goodspeed's Norma Terris Theatre by Frank Rizzo

Completes Three-Musical Series at Second StageThe musical fantasy, “LMNOP” will have a workshop production at Goodspeed Musicals’ Norma Terris Theatre July 25 to Aug. 18

Kevin Spacey To Present Christopher Plummer With Monte Cristo Award by Frank Rizzo

At NYC Gala For Eugene O'Neill Theater CenterOscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey will present the Monte Cristo Award to Oscar and Tony Award winning actor Christopher Plummer at the annua…

Going To 'The Mountaintop:' Two Soul-Stirring Performances; One Fateful Night by Frank Rizzo

The show: Katori Hall's "The Mountaintop" at Hartford's TheaterWorks

50 Years Of Drama, Dance And Dedication At Goodspeed by Frank Rizzo

East Haddam's American Theater, And Its Director Michael Price, Have Evolved With The TimesWould the story of the Goodspeed Opera House make a good musical?